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CMS' Slavitt Discusses the Future of Meaningful Use in MACRA Implementation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt discussed how his agency is moving the Meaningful Use Program into a new system culminating in implementation of the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

ITA discussed Health IT Related Benefits in the TPP
Given that many TPP countries have health care systems at a relatively early stage of development, U.S. exports of Health IT product and service solutions provide a tremendous opportunity for these countries to quickly deliver improved health care to their citizens.

Leveraging the Best Available Standards for Today, Tomorrow and the Future
Multiple efforts, some collaborative, some competing, have long been underway to advance the goal of interoperability, but those efforts have not, until now, provided us with clear guidance on what are the best available standards and implementation specifications to use. Fortunately, 2016 marks the year that we’ve received that guidance, thanks to the recently published 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory.

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